any Chinese Laborer from
any
The language
in these Sections is
foreign port or place. sufficiently broad
and comprehensive to embrace all Chinese Laborers.
without
regard
to the country of which they may be
A
subjects. And the 12
Section declares that
any
Chinese
to exclude Chinese laborero
person found unlawfully within the United States
the circumstances under which it was
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passed and
from its language, that it had a still further object
The construction which
we
give
renders all its provisions
consistent with each other. The whole purpose of the law
from
the state would be
defeated by any other construction. The release of the
petitioner must be denied and he must be returned
to the ship from which he was taken. And it
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Sawyer, Circuit Judge.
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shall be removed
therefrom by direction of the President
to the country from whence he came
to China, but the country from whence he came.
Attention has been called to a recent decision of Judges
not necessarily
Our
in
po
ordered.
Lowell and Nelson
of
the Circuit Court.
of the United
Leader for
the district of
Massachusetts, in which in a
different conclusion was reached by them. Those Judges
considered that the Act
of Congress
was
simply intended
to give effect to the stipulations of the supplementary
Treaty. Undoubtedly, as already said that was one
of
the objects.
But it is very evident both from
of
the